After an unusually mild summer thus far, the weather’s finally been heating up a bit here in the City of the Angels. And with the rising temperature, my thoughts naturally turn to…ice cream. Regular readers of this blog know that I have a thing for Thrifty brand ice cream and while I plan to remain loyal to the only real friend I’ve had in my life my favorite cold dessert treat, I thought it might be good to branch out and try new things at the same time. So when a friend told me that local favorite ice cream establishment Scoops had a kim chi-flavored ice cream, I was intrigued.
Look carefully at the photos above. Those are two things that should not go together. I consider myself Korean to the core of my very bones so kim chi is as vital to my survival as water, but even I can’t imagine how the pairing of ice cream and kim chi could bring about anything but tragedy. It’s like the dairy product equivalent of the coupling of Romeo and Juliet or Brad and Jennifer…it can only end badly.
